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Patient-Centered Medical Home

The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) has been proposed as a model for achieving the kind of responsive, effective health care that is urgently needed.

Evidence shows many benefits to establishing a strong, primary care-based health system, including better health outcomes at lower cost. Health systems across the country have sought the benefits, and recognition, that a PCMH can garner.

MacColl’s work has guided practices through the transformation necessary to become a PCMH.

Our interest in transformation began with teaching the elements of the Chronic Care Model. Our commitment to transformation continues now via several initiatives involving the concepts of the patient-centered medical home. MacColl has developed a PCMH change concept model, the PCMH-A, an assessment tool, and other materials in use by clinicians throughout the country.

Guiding Transformation: How Medical Practices Can Become Patient-Centered Medical Homes

As part of the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, this Commonwealth Fund report sought to develop a more detailed and concrete definition that describes the changes that most practices would need to make to become PCMHs.

Practice Transformation Webinar: Helena, 2012

Spreading a medical home redesign: effects on emergency department use and hospital admissions

The Group Health experience is outlined in this journal article co-authored by Katie Coleman, showing it is possible to reduce emergency department use with patient-centered medical home transformation across a diverse set of clinics using a clear change strategy and sufficient resources and supports.

This December 2013 journal article describes the properties of the Patient-Centered Medical Home Assessment (PCMH-A) as a tool to stimulate and monitor progress among primary care practices interested in transforming to patient-centered medical homes.